Show SENATE GROUP SPEEDS SUGAR BilLS BilL'S ACTION Measure May Be Brought Up I Ifor for Consideration on Tuesday REPUBLICANS OBJECTING Secretary Regains Powers to Fix Quotas By CHARLES O. O GRIDLEY Telegram Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON April Moved 16 to action by the emphatic protests of western beet growers over continued continue uncertainty on sugar legislatIon the senate finance committee Monday reported reo re- ported without a record vote the administration ad ad- ministration bill to make sugar a basic commodity Senate leaders said that a plan might be worked out to bring the bill billup I up on the floor Tuesday under suspension suspension sus- sus pension of rules for immediate pass age but Republicans who hope to ef ef- feet further changes in its terms were expected to object to such procedure As reported by the committee the bill is not as promising as it seemed last week after adoption of amendments amendments amend amend- ments submitted by Senator Vanden- Vanden berg of DC Michigan I Secretary Regains Power is not a member of the committee which proceeded to fur ther revise some of the changes made at his instance The exemption from processing tax of all floor stocks of sugar which would have been a boon to beet sugar growers and processors alike was stricken from the bill belore be be- lore fore final action was taken Authority to the estima d con consumption of sugar in il th the United States was practically restored to the secretary ot of agriculture though he required to set a minimum figure Gf cf tons The floor stock tax will be paid on Continued on Two I GROUP SPEEDS SUGAR ACTION Measure May Be Brought Up for Consideration on Tuesday L 2 i Continued from Pare Fare One all su sugar ar as delivered for tion the bill now provides Amendments Retained Amendments adopted last Jast week narrowing the authority of the secretary secretary sec sec- over child labor in the beet fields striking out entirely his power to fix wages and reducing the penalty for tor violation or of any of his regulations to are all retained in the bill The processing tax is defined as the difference between the current average avo av- farm price of beets and their faIr exchange value interpreted in terms of sugar That Is expected to 10 result in a tax of about 50 cents a hundred and will be balanced against a corresponding reduction In the duty on Cuban sugar The proposal to buy tons of at II beet sugar w was rejected by the com coat and a subcommittee which had considered fixing quotas for insular producers over the weekend week reported against it so domestic quotas alone are written in the bill The actual changes from the house bill are the amendments on child la Ia- bar wage fixIng and penalty for yin yin- lating departmental regulations |